Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know that is a danger not just for those who are lost as far as God 's salvation is concerned , there is a danger there for you and I as Christians , of being smug , of being self-satisfied , I 'm alright ! |
| 2 | THERE was very little between them and Maggie melted at once , her legs against his as Felipe 's lips moved over hers and his hands began to search her skin demandingly . |
| 3 | The swerves in economic management have been as much his as Mr Lamont 's . |
| 4 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 5 | Jo 's organising them all , down the hill at a brisk pace , impossible to talk while you time a dash across the road scooping the kids up with you as lorries thunder in both directions farting diesel fumes into your face . |
| 6 | There 'll never be anyone to come your way as right for you as Christopher . |
| 7 | Conversation drifted over you as families sauntered by . |
| 8 | You see , Mr McKillop , although I 'm reasonably happy to accept you as Elsie 's brother and I appreciate that you 've put a great deal of work into tracking her down , I 'm bound to say that I respect Elsie 's wishes to start life afresh and leave her old life behind . |
| 9 | ’ There is a danger of people perceiving you as Mr Cause and getting pissed off with you turning up yet again ’ . |
| 10 | Since I ca n't address you as Miss Whatsit I do n't see why you should keep to the ‘ Doctor ’ bit — Penry will do . ’ |
| 11 | You as Charlie Chaplin |
| 12 | We felt quite strongly that although it was a gesture , I do n't think it was a political gesture , I think it was a gesture that we as Councillors wanted to make so that we personally would suffer some of the reductions in erm finance that we were going to impose on other people . |
| 13 | Central Government has decided how much money should be spent by the City and County Councils and all that we as Councillors have been able to do is to decide , within that limit , how the money is allocated . |
| 14 | We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible . |
| 15 | Section four four onwards talks about erm the affecting the environmental and makes a point that will be we as officers have been with people on this and that is quite unusual er at this stage of the process . |
| 16 | Creating these insurance to die is the number one need for financial independence , because we as doctors are going to spread the news with our modern lifestyles , because unlike the pneumonia patient you 're not going to recover and go back to work , unlike the , the heart transplant , as the heart transplant , or the heart attack or the cancer patient , maybe at our expense . |
| 17 | We as doctors say , we 're so bloody wonderful , you know we 're very important . |
| 18 | Complaints against police are obviously a problem for all of us , and we as managers throughout the rank structure are concerned about the complaints and it 's simply that , whilst I was in operational command , I had a direct influence in hopefully preventing complaints . |
| 19 | I I do n't know , probably we as newspapers are fairly guilty of preserving that image , but I also believe that those of you who are in local government service in whatever field , and that includes both officers and politicians have something to do yourselves there to try to restore that image . |
| 20 | My son started a youth club in one of the common rooms and we as residents we got together we really enjoyed ourselves in our way , you know ? |
| 21 | We as magistrates do try and be consistent in our sentencing er throughout the country , I think it 's beholden on the police to be consistent in their approach to offenders , as well , and it seems quite wrong that someone in Folkestone gets away with doing something with a guy in Wigan er goes before the court . |
| 22 | I have a child who , a number of years ago , we as parents got very worried about him |
| 23 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 24 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 25 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 26 | I think it 's a very complex situation and we as adults need to show our children that we can we can hold onto some sort of measured response within the complexities of what they and we are coming across . |
| 27 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 28 | And we as teachers see no reason why that should be cut away overnight . |
| 29 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 30 | But what I 'm saying is that there may only be one proof sense is what we as individuals derive from that proof . |